
Compensation
$150,000–$200,000/year
Job Description
What You’ll Do
- Onboard, clean, evaluate, and structure new financial and alternative datasets
- Use AI agents to accelerate alpha research, hypothesis generation, and strategy testing
- Develop systematic investment strategies from research concept through validation
- Analyze performance, risk, robustness, and implementation constraints of research outputs
- Work with engineering to improve KelAI’s research workflows and agent capabilities
- Support forward deployment with hedge funds and institutional investors by translating real research workflows into product and research requirements
What We’re Looking For
- 3-5 years of experience in quantitative research, systematic investing, data science, or a related field
- Strong understanding of financial markets, alpha research, backtesting, and portfolio construction
- Experience working with large financial datasets and research pipelines
- Strong Python skills and ability to move independently from data exploration to tested research output
- Interest in applying AI agents to investment research and systematic strategy development
- Strong communication skills and ability to work with both technical teams and investment users
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Job Details
- Category
- Research
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Location
- New York, NY
- Posted
- Last updated
- Aug 12, 2026, 12:40 PM
- Compensation
- $150,000 - $200,000 per year
About KELAI
For decades, finance has been a race to know first. The first traders belonged to the floor; then came quant teams building infrastructure to interpret markets systematically. In the era of AI, as the boundary between human and machine intelligence dissolves, KelAI brings finance into cognitive interpretation at scale. Our autonomous agents read every market move, formulate systematic investment insights and compound knowledge at market speed. Compounding intelligence, trade by trade.
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